(Al Jazeera) This year’s Twenty20 World Cup could be moved to the United Arab Emirates (UAE) if the COVID-19 crisis does not subside in India, the country’s cricket board has said.
Six months before the showpiece’s scheduled start, India reported a record 386,452 new cases on Friday, though medical experts believe actual numbers could be five to 10 times higher.
The governing International Cricket Council (ICC) said this month it was sticking to hosting the event in India but had backup plans, without specifying an alternative location.
“It would be the UAE,” Board of Control for Cricket in India (BCCI) general manager Dhiraj Malhotra told the BBC on Thursday.
“… We’ll take the tournament there, but it’ll still be done by the BCCI,” added Malhotra, also the tournament director.
He did not respond to Reuters news agency’s calls and messages to elaborate, but an ICC spokesman confirmed the plan.
